Author Archives: Nick Boldt

In JBoss Tools and Developer Studio, we manage a lot of build jobs in Jenkins. In fact, for the 3.2.x/4.x and 3.3.x/5.x streams, there are over 195 jobs. When we start building our next year’s first milestone, we’ll spawn another 40+ jobs. Here are some of them: http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/view/JBossTools/view/JBossTools_Trunk/ http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/view/JBossTools/view/JBossTools_3.3.indigo http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/view/JBossTools/view/JBossTools_3.2.helios To assist in performance, we use maven profiles in our ...

I’m forever forgetting what the rules are for dependency declarations in MANIFEST.MF and feature.xml for osgi plugins and features. And Googling often results in frustration rather than an answer. So, because today I actually found a concise list of the rules, I thought I’d repost them here, with some minor edits to help clarify. OSGi Plugin Version Ranges Dependencies on ...

Learning the git workflow takes a bit of brain retraining, but since I’ve been using SVN almost entirely via commandline (because Subversive sucks and locks up my Eclipse when I try to use it for anything beyond synching/updating/committing a handful of files), adopting git’s commandline syntax is reasonably similar. Consider these simple operations: Initial checkout from existing repo for a ...

I’ve been using Git for a while now, but only today realized I can have coloured output for diff, grep, branch, show-branch and status, without having to hook in any other external tools (like colordiff, for example). Here’s my ~/.gitconfig file, which enables colour: [user] name = Nick Boldt email = nickboldt (at) gmail.com [giggle] main-window-maximized = false main-window-geometry = ...

Newsletter

Join them now to gain exclusive access to the latest news in the Java world, as well as insights about Android, Scala, Groovy and other related technologies.

Email address:

Join Us

With 1,240,600 monthly unique visitors and over 500 authors we are placed among the top Java related sites around. Constantly being on the lookout for partners; we encourage you to join us. So If you have a blog with unique and interesting content then you should check out our JCG partners program. You can also be a guest writer for Java Code Geeks and hone your writing skills!

Disclaimer

All trademarks and registered trademarks appearing on Examples Java Code Geeks are the property of their respective owners. Java is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation in the United States and other countries. Examples Java Code Geeks is not connected to Oracle Corporation and is not sponsored by Oracle Corporation.